The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting ...

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Leonard Knight worked for more than 30 years to build Salvation Mountain, a 50×150-foot visionary art environment in the desert just east of the Salton Sea. Religious scholar Sara M. Patterson spent ...

For 134 years, the distinctive sound of Salvation Army bells has been a signal of hope and community spirit at Christmas. The ...

The story of Salvation Mountain is one of resilience and perseverance. Since Leonard Knight began construction of the Southern California desert monument in 1984, it’s been met with various challenges ...

In a single loop around Southern California’s accidental lake, this route reveals surreal landmarks—Salvation Mountain, Bombay Beach installations, GTA inspiration sites, and haunting traces of ...

Our first Travelin’ Solo trip has been going down the road for a while. Alone. Together. This is our last post from the trip. Thanks for coming along. The Joshua Tree National Park area of California ...

A suspect in a triple murder case out of North Carolina was arrested over the weekend near Salvation Mountain in Imperial County. Benjamin Joseph Taylor, 35, has been wanted for the murder of a mother ...

Toy Mountain - Each year, Toy Mountain and the Salvation Army provide toys to over 23,000 children, and this year our goal is to leave no child in Ottawa without a gift to open on Christmas morning.